{"id":8857,"date":"2024-04-29T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2024-04-29T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:20:20","slug":"2-corinthians-program-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=8857","title":{"rendered":"2 Corinthians (Program #6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"2 Corinthians (Program #6) – The Ministry of the New Covenant (2)<\/p>\n

Metaphors play an important role in Scripture. Webster says a metaphor is the use of one set of words to describe or illustrate a similar point.<\/p>\n

John uses the technique when he speaks of Jesus approaching him in the gospel. “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.<\/em>” Surely he wasn’t saying that Jesus was a literal “lamb”. But the metaphor or picture gives us a much richer and clearer understanding.<\/p>\n

The apostle Paul was also very fond of metaphors, particularly when conveying his deepest thoughts in teachings. We see it used intensively in 2 Corinthians. For example in 2 Corinthians chapter 2:14 he says “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ<\/em>”\u00a0 Here, the metaphor is the triumphant possession of captured and vanquished folks after a Roman battle. And Paul says that we, the believers had become such vanquished ones in the train of the victorious Christ.<\/p>\n

Now, we come to another marvelous metaphor in the very next chapter, chapter 3 of 2 Corinthians begins this way:<\/p>\n

1-3 “Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?<\/em> You are our letter, inscribed in our hearts, known and read by all men,<\/em> Since you are being manifested that you are a letter of Christ ministered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone but in tablets of hearts of flesh.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Living letters of Christ. This is our topic today.<\/p>\n

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